Judge any tailoring house with a single question: where does my pattern come from?
Three systems
The core difference
- Ready-to-wear: the pattern is the brand's standard block, matched to your body by size. The garment exists first; your body adapts.
- Made-to-measure: still a standard block, scaled and tweaked to your measurements. The bones of the pattern belong to someone else.
- Bespoke — one pattern, one person: a cutter drafts a paper pattern from zero for your body alone. Sloping shoulders, upright chest, uneven shoulders — all drawn into the draft, then archived as your tailoring identity.
Why the archive matters
A posture — sloping shoulders, a forward head, a fuller stomach, one shoulder lower than the other — can only be corrected structurally in the draft. Scaling a block hides none of it. And an archived pattern compounds: the second order needs only a re-check of what changed, and the same data can serve a family across decades — the technical foundation of our Family Wardrobe service.
Three questions that reveal the truth
"Will my pattern be drafted individually?" — "adjusted from our block" means made-to-measure.
"What do I try on at the fitting?" — bespoke fits your half-made garment; MTM fits a sample made for someone else's size.
"Can I see my pattern again in five years?" — no real answer to archiving usually means no individual draft.
How Du answers
度·BESPOKE drafts every pattern individually, fits on the half-made garment, and archives every paper pattern long-term — the house's stated principle is no stock-block grading. The full process is on Craft & Fabrics.
